U.S. President Barack Obama has ordered all major government agencies to make two key services available on mobile phones within a year, in an effort to embrace a growing trend toward Web surfing on mobile devices.

U.S. President Barack Obama has ordered all major government agencies to make two key services available on mobile phones within a year, in an effort to embrace a growing trend toward Web surfing on mobile devices.

Steven VanRoekel, formerly managing director at the U.S. Federal Communications Commission, will succeed Vivek Kundra as the Chief Information Officer (CIO) of the U.S. federal government, The New York Times reports.

The Federal Government has sought assistance from the IT sector after announcing the formation of a new expert advisory group for digital education.

India has issued digital identities to about 9.5 million people so far, and plans to step up enrollment to 1 million a day from October, the head of the agency issuing the biometric identities said on Thursday at a conference in Bangalore.

A new report into government Web sites says they frequently present access problems, both at the level of the initial search and the internal navigation

The most successful government Web sites devote time, people and technology to satisfy user requirements, according to new report from UK-based political research charity the Hansard Society